Can only think of Wickes and Screwfix, but they're not on Gorgie Road/Dalry Road.
Best guess is they mean the cobbler, which is opposite Stratford's.
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Scottish Govmt announces £10m for pop up cycle/walking lanes
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Thanks Frenchy the chap seems a wee bit unhinged. I would need to have a thing to buy I am not wasting the poor businesses time with a survey, they have enough problems with their businesses being destroyed by bike lanes
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Bell Donaldson next to Sainsburys?
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Bell Donaldson next to Sainsburys and The Tool Box (on Dalry Road) would both qualify as hardware stores.
The former has its own carpark, the latter not so much
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@medium Dave, oh yes, bell Donaldson used them good prices. Though had to pay the vat
Will Google the tool box
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Oh, and there's a funny wee hardware type store near Haymatkwt. Same side as British Heart Foundation. Sells important home hardware items like bongs and so forth, alongside tins of Brasso
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The toolbox has double red lines all around. A bike lane would make no difference FFs
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@medium Dave and bong brasso a fluid for polishing your bong that is scent free, harmless to the environment and doesn’t polish your bong?
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I have no information on the shininess of the bongs owned by Gorgians and Dalrydas.
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Shurely the shinier the bong, the more likely it is to attract the attention of PC McCopper?
Hence it is hereby declared that Bong Brasso is Fake News...
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Sensible changes made to Silverknowes Road down to the foreshore. Bus lane is a single lane (because only one bus will be on that route at a time), leaving the rest of the road for walking/cycling.
https://twitter.com/harts_cyclery/status/1367075718585348096?s=21
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Silverknowes Road looks like it's ready to open to buses very shortly. Will be a shame to loose the 'promenade' feel (for lack of a better word) of people walking/cycling across the entire road but there's a good two-way cycle lane as a replacement. The connection to the NEPN is going to be installed from Monday which should be useful, if not the most direct.
Drum Brae North cycle lane is in place (sans defenders) and was suitably wide downhill.
The A90 cycle lane is also in place from Craigleith Road to Orchard Brae with the next bit in progress (I cycled through a cloud of something while they were burning off some hatching which I'm sure has reduced my lifespan substantially).
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CycleAlex (or anyone else) what connection from Sliverknowes to the NEPN? That one has passed me by.
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@Frenchy thank you for that. Can't see myself using it downhill. Uphill, possibly.
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Another 15 million into the pot. Unclear over what time period though. Hopefully per year.
https://twitter.com/scottishgreens/status/1368898318412177413
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Why there’s so much traffic -
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because the city is now a donut with low wages in the town centre bringing in people from outlying district's. People living in Edinburgh work at high value jobs on the outside. Its a complete mess. Is what happens when you change a city into a theme park
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https://mobile.twitter.com/MarkTho115689/status/1368902336043745290
Some truth in that. Though I expect some of the jobs are there because of the ‘theme park’.
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It is £15million more per year. So 100->115million. Tasty.
£23 per head Scotland wide now, getting towards the £25 per head Dutch figure often quoted (presumably this needs adjusting to ~£30 with inflation - & then doubling for catch up efforts).
Hoping the greens are still required for budgets to get passed after the May election.
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“& then doubling for catch up efforts“
Think that might be realistic/good campaigning demand!
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I can't imagine using that NEPN - Silverknowes connection unless I was with the kids (preschoolers)
BUT, I've tried a couple of times to rollerblade up from the prom to NEPN and the surface on Silverknowes rd is terrible (pavement and road, eg here) so if it's smoothed, I'll definitely be checking it out on my tiny wheels :)
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This could be the roads round the Meadows, Inverleith Park, Saughton Park & Leith Links..?
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Lanark Road cycle lane eastbound appears to be complete from the Gillespie crossroads to just short of Inglis Green Road. Westbound complete as far as Spylaw Bank Road. Some odd-looking triple "buffer zone" markings between some of the parking spaces and the cycle lane.
Two DGAF white vans parked on the DYLs in the westbound cycle lane shortly before Dovecot Park :(
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A councillor has described one of the council’s new Spaces for People schemes as ‘a terrifying death trap’
A death trap? Wow, I wonder what’s causing the danger?
A councillor has described one of the council’s new Spaces for People schemes as ‘a terrifying death trap’ - after drivers ignored prominent new signage installed over the weekend.
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The new give way on Corstorphine High Street is going to cause some issues you come round the blind corner and there is a kerb (thing) a few meters in front.
Had a dude consider ignoring my priority and just driving over me this evening.
Its not the facility it's the morons who inhabit this country that are the problem.
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“It should have been made obvious this one lane was for buses only. Instead, we had cars racing towards each other at speed."
I've driven on single track roads a lot. I've somehow never felt the need to "race towards" another driver whilst doing so, though. Must be something wrong with me.
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The connecting route through Silverknowes (of NCN1 to Silverknowes Road & on to the prom) is, err, interesting.
Just paint so far but has a contraflow lane on Silverknowes Parkway...
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They really are spoiling us with the width... although I imagine most people using it will be heading to NCN1 so shouldn't be too bad. The lanes on Silverknowes Rd itself seem like they will be more useful (both to those using it and not).
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EEN describes Silverknowes Road North SfP as "a terrifying death trap". Meanwhile this gets an emoji.
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@mga - indeed.
We also have Cllr Webber being so confused by a bit of paint trying to make a 20mph road safer (after a series of recent crashes) that we should scrap any attempt to make any road safer ever...
Strange times
https://twitter.com/hank_chief/status/1369372499176267786?s=19
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